EYESIGHT

Los Angeles: Veteran actress Judi Dench, who is suffering from macular degeneration that can lead to blindness, says she has the typeface enlarged so that she can read scripts.
"So, if six of us were coming in to read a sonnet they'd all have one piece of paper and I'd...

Mathura: At least three people lost their eyesight after they underwent cataract surgeries in Mathura at a camp organised by an NGO in November 2014. An FIR has been registered in this regard. Police have said that right people have been affected by the surgery.
"An FIR was this evening registered...

New Delhi: Eightyearold Ritesh Walia peers through his spectacles at Hercules saving a lost princess, his latest video game. After five hours with Hercules, he switches to Angry Birds, and then to Pokemon. Ritesh is not alone in his addiction to video games. With increasing access to computers, smart phones,...

Hyderabad: Visual impairment in India has gone down by just 10 percent in the last six years and blindness has reduced by only 12 percent, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organisation. More than 450 million in India require vision correction, of which 100 million do not...

Dehradun: A class 8 student lost his eyesight after he was allegedly thrashed by his teacher for not bringing a book to school. The incident occurred in Scholars' Home. The Principal has denied the allegations.
A case has been filed against the school and the teacher. The victim, Mohit Arora,...

CJ Mala found an abandoned child a year back. The child was bitten by bugs and was losing his eyesight. She decided to take him home and get him treated. After an eyetransplant done as a humanitarium gesture by a Banglaore hospital, the baby is now recovering.
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London: Reading in dim light wont damage your eyes, you dont need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs wont make the hair grow back faster.
These wellworn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published on Friday in the British...

New Delhi: Did you know that working for long hours in front of the computer can actually prove to be more harmful than just a backache?
It can cause Dry Eye Syndrome that could eventually harm your eyesight.
Twentysixyear old Ankur Bhati works for more than 14 hours a day at...

New York: Playing video games that involve firing guns could improve eyesight, suggests a study.
Playing Gears of War, Lost Planet, Halo and other action video games can improve eyesight, say Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester and other researchers who conducted tests on 10 male college students.
The students...